[cc-community] Orlowski vs. liblicense

Jon Phillips jon at creativecommons.org
Mon Aug 20 13:12:48 EDT 2007


On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 16:14 +0100, rob at robmyers.org wrote:
> Andrew "please give me an interview Larry, pleeease!"* Orlowski has  
> his sights on liblicense, the CC licensing module being used in OLPC:
> 
> "The music industry has a long and shameful history of robbing black  
> artists of their rights. Now along comes some new software that will  
> help speed up the job. Think of it as a sort of 1-Click "non-payment"  
> system."
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/20/one_click_colonialism/
> 
> As usual, Orlowski's article is deliberately inflamatory linkbait. I'd  
> link to the Google cache but El Reg need their page views so there  
> isn't one.
> 
> That said, I'm sure that more grown up versions of this objection will  
> be aired. And I think they will deserve answering.
> 
> - Rob.
> 
> * - Speech marks do not indicate literal quote.
> 

Thanks Rob!

Anyway, we have been chugging along with liblicense development this
summer and had planned to put a change like this into the system once it
matured. 

In fact, the next release of liblicense will in fact have this feature
of no license or set license, so that when it is installed, will be set
to no license on olpc or anywhere you install liblicense. This is
planned to come out this week.

We have rolled out a similar feature on another license chooser along
the same lines to take into account community views and also various
parties who want to use it...

NOTE: This is another case where journalists *should* check with those
they are talking at and about in order to do accurate reporting.

Thanks for bringing this up!

Cheers!

Jon

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